The MiKlip project, led by Prof Jochem Marotzke and coordinated by Dr Sebastian Hettrich at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, has made its decadal climate forecasts for 2018-2027 available online this month.

Decadal climate predictions cover timescales of several years up to a decade. They close the gap between short-term weather...

Dr Claudia Timmreck, scientist in the group “Middle and Upper Atmosphere” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), was awarded her Habilitation (the highest qualification level in the German university system) on the 29th of January 2018.

In her Habilitation Colloquium entitled: “How good are large volcanic eruptions as an analog for...

Dr Thorsten Mauritsen, group leader in the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System” at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), has accepted an appointment at the Department of Meteorology (MISU) at Stockholm University.

Dr Thorsten Mauritsen studied physics and meteorology at the Universities of Copenhagen and Stockholm. He...

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Scientists at the MPI-M investigate what determines the sensitivity of the Earth system to perturbations such as the changing composition of its atmosphere, and work toward establishing the sources and limits of predictability within the Earth system. For that purpose MPI-M develops and analyses sophisticated models of the Earth system. Targeted in-situ measurements and satellite observations complement the model simulations. [read more]